Improvement in hoes



H. PGRTER.

Hoe.

No. `27,382 Patented Mar. 6. 1860 Vantages over the ordinary straight-edged or UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

HUNTINGTON PORTER, OF GUMMINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT- IN. HOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 27,382, dated March 6, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUNTINGTON PORTER, of Oummington, in the county ot' Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Farm-Hoe; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Y Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my hoe with a handle attached. Fig. 2 is a View showing the peculiar form of my hoe.

My improvement in the construction of handhoesldenolninate the Eagle Hoe77 on account of its resemblance to the outline-of that bird with its wings spread. This particular form of hoe has been found to possess peculiar adthe triangular hoe or the thrust-hoe in weeding small plants and for scraping and loosening the earth about young plants more effect` ually where the crops are put in the ground in the broadcast or narrow-row system.

The form of my hoe will be readily understood by reference to the drawings, A being a curved portion, which is continued out by two wings` B B,which terminate in sharp points. The socket O, for attaching the hoe to the handle, is on top of the hoe and between the two wings B B.

This hoe is intended specially for thinning l out such plants as stand in a very close state where the ordinary square hoe will not answer the purpose and cannot be worked among the plants without thinning them out too much and injuring their tender roots. Besides, the constant use of the square hoe with its straight edge becomes laborious and tiresome to the person using it.

The cutting-edge of my hoe, it will be seen, is made in such a manner that the hoe will penetrate the earth with a drawing stroke, while the portion A will penetrate the soil a sucient distance to admit air and moisture and render the soil ne between the rows of plants, and the wings B B, which are not intended to penetrate the earth so far, will cut out the useless weeds with a considerable degree of eXactness, and with a great deal less labor and time and in a more perfect and effectual rn anner than with the common hoe.

What I claim as lnyinventiomand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the peculiarly curved and pointed wings B, socket C, and round blade A, as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

- HUNTINGTON PORTER.

Witnesses:

WM. PACKARD, IHrLo. PACKARD. 

